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Why? There is still plenty of offices where the fax is an official
document. If you order products using fax, it is considered legally
binding. And it makes your venture look good if you can tell a reliable
fax number where to reach you.

I still don’t want a fax machine. I still have a landline telephone
and the fax machines are cheap but it sounds quite stupid to have an
extra box there.

After a quick survey I found PopFax.com. It is cheap (receiving 4
EUR/month with fixed local Fax number, sending 5c/page to most places in
the world). Some other alternatives I found were twice as expensive.

So, I am now their customer. Still I have some reservations to
recommend it for you. All the critical things work fine. Some others do not.

I have some problems on downloading faxes. It is not critical because
they come nicely as email attachments and you can browse them in their
web. But when I try to download one, it just tells that file is empty. I
tried to debug this and Linux WGET reported some very weird SSL
certificate incompatibility error. It likely works with Windows just
because Widows is not very accurate in this kind of issues.

And when I asked some issues (actually many, many more than any other
service I am using), it became immediately very clear that the help desk
is in France. It is funny that the French attitude is very easily
detectable: "we are very sorry to hear that you have not managed to use
our perfect program but do try again - you certainly are able to solve
your problem in that way." I have had many French colleagues in the past
and this is exactly what they always say when there is a bug in their
system. (Recommendable reading: "French or Foes".)

But, it sort of works. This was not the only problem but now I have a
fax and don’t have one more stupid machine collecting dust at my office.
And now I can send "signed" documents - if someone really thinks that
this is more reliable than email.